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- adjective
comparative form ofshabby : moreshabby
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Examples
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'Ere I am, old, younger men takin' my place, my clothes gettin 'shabbier an' shabbier, an 'makin' it 'arder every day to get
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` 'Ere I am, old, younger men takin' my place, my clothes gettin 'shabbier an' shabbier, an 'makin' it 'arder every day to get a job.
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He dressed, in accordance with the TV dictate that the higher one's title the shabbier one's wardrobe, in a baggy hoodie and high-tops.
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As we mount higher and higher, we find commoner books, in shabbier bindings; but there is still the same order preserved, each book being numbered according to a printed catalogue. from The Book Browser’s Guide by Roy Harley Lewis.
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As we mount higher and higher, we find commoner books, in shabbier bindings; but there is still the same order preserved, each book being numbered according to a printed catalogue. from The Book Browser’s Guide by Roy Harley Lewis.
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Voters are anxious about our decline into a shabbier "Lesser America."
Stan Sorscher: Making Business Succeed Stan Sorscher 2011
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Cato, please stop trying to refer to the police of today as being a lot shabbier than in your time.
Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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She had expected to find the city in ruins, based on what she had heard, and was surprised to find it much the same as she remembered, if “slightly shabbier.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Voters are anxious about our decline into a shabbier "Lesser America."
Stan Sorscher: Making Business Succeed Stan Sorscher 2011
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